Wingtip Sloat Discography of CDs

Wingtip Sloat music CDs Recording information: 05/1990-03/1994. Wingtip Sloat: Andy Dubuc, Patrick Foster, Brad Maylor, Dave Bishop. Liner Note Authors: Dave Bishop; Bill Kellum.

Wingtip Sloat discography Bubbling into being with the not quite normal guitar noises starting "Z Is for Zovirax," If Only for the Hatchery inhabits a pleasantly strange middle ground between spare, catchy songs and just damaged enough psych-art ravings. It's not really '60s/'70s revivalist per se; indeed, there's more an air of the crisp and catchy '80s underground rock scene in the South, say the dB's or Let's Active, being used to serve different ends. The unexpected percussion on "Snack of Toes" -- bells, oddly miked and mixed drums, and more -- or the mixed low and distorted but still audible screams and cackles on "Manmannouth" certainly aren't out to re-create first-album Byrds, while the CD-glitch chop-up of "Meet Cute" is definitely a product of now rather than then. Arguably, there's a kissing-cousin sense that could see Wingtip Sloat and Guided By Voices share a stage together, but if Robert Pollard would just want to get drunk while reliving the Who's glory days, the Wingtip Sloat trio prefers something a little more intimate and less concerned about the classic rock dream. Songs like "Part of Three" have an almost summery, ...

Wingtip Sloat songs There's a certain purity to the grainy and definitively indierock sound of the Wingtip Sloats, but only if one can get past the unformed and rambling dynamics of their composition. Chewyfoot is no different -- everything seems to be working except the band's ability to stay on track. ~ Nitsuh Abebe Live Recording

Wingtip Sloat CD discography There's a certain purity to the grainy and definitively indierock sound of the Wingtip Sloats, but only if one can get past the unformed and rambling dynamics of their composition. Chewyfoot is no different -- everything seems to be working except the band's ability to stay on track. ~ Nitsuh Abebe